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Re: Telegram's t.me domain has been suspended

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Post by shishcat »

ButlerianJihad wrote: post #127
mfkp wrote: post #124

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how about .to? that's what i'm mainly using for my url shortener/redirects and haven't run into any issues... yet

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Interesting read from 2004: https://www.theregister.com/on-prem/2004/12/20/we-were-sold-...

But I strongly disagree with your conclusion. gTLDs are also run by profit-driven companies and operate under ICANN's US-rooted system. ccTLDs at least offer some jurisdictional autonomy and diversity.

And many "trendy" ccTLDs are not actually run by unstable local governments. .me, for example, is operated with GoDaddy and Identity Digital, while .to relies on Tucows, a Canadian company.

So the irony is that these ccTLDs often end up controlled or technically managed by the same North American companies you consider more trustworthy. Very few small/island countries actually manage their ccTLD directly, which is extremely sad.

Re: Telegram's t.me domain has been suspended

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Post by fn-mote »

cmeacham98 wrote: post #82
lbotos wrote: post #74

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I think you misunderstood -- OP is running op-s-domain.com/telegramchat -> redirect t.me. They updated op-s-domain.com/telegramchat -> redirect telegram.me.

I think you also misunderstood, they are suggesting OP redirect to a telegram domain that isn't on the .me TLD, as the other .me is potentially at risk of also being taken down.

This is barely an issue… changing the redirect is instantaneous.

Re: Telegram's t.me domain has been suspended

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Post by fragmede »

booi wrote: post #138
esseph wrote: post #120

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Not available for private use isn't exactly true...

which 2 letter TLDs are not controlled by states?

Supposedly none because they're only given to states, but there're a few that have some murky administrative situations.

Re: Telegram's t.me domain has been suspended

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Post by inigyou »

FabCH wrote: post #110
wwalexander wrote: post #108

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ccTLD hacks are both semantically incorrect and geopolitically unstable. The .io TLD will likely be phased out in the future due to geopolitics, and all the companies who decided it was more important to signal how hacker jargon aware their startup was will have to go through the very difficult process of changing domains. In order to log into IRS.gov to get a code to pay my USA taxes, I had to verify my USA ID via a…

I mean, the government of Montenegro is a reasonable European democracy on its, admittedly slow, way to join the EU and is a NATO member. It’s not really any different than this website we are now on being at the whim of the US government.

It's very different. If the USA soon starts cancelling politically inconvenient domains, European ones will be safe. Just like Nazi propaganda domains would be censored in Europe, but are safe in the US.

Every domain has a country. It's as if every non-ccTLD was actually underneath .us. For legacy reasons .com .org etc were grandfathered in. gTLDs are also under .us for corrupt reasons.

Re: Telegram's t.me domain has been suspended

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Post by inigyou »

cute_boi wrote: post #50
Drakim wrote: post #44

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I also recommend porkbun

Is it better than cloudflare?

Never use the same company for your hosting or CDN and your domain, and avoid cloudflare in general.

That's because if they don't like your website being on your CDN, and they suspend your account, you'll lose your domain. If your domain is at Porkbun you can change it to point to a different IP address.

And avoid Cloudflare because they're centralising the internet.

Re: Telegram's t.me domain has been suspended

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Post by mfkp »

yreg wrote: post #89
loloquwowndueo wrote: post #36

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What’s your beef? The name? Because I’ve been super happy with porkbun but damn, that name… and then the official-sounding ones like network solutions are quite shady. don’t judge a registrar by its name I guess.

Also namecheap sounds shit, but afaik they have good reputation.

They used to, before they got bought out by private equity and started jacking up the rates. Moved all my domains to porkbun since then.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45243123

Re: Telegram's t.me domain has been suspended

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Post by naturalmovement »

ButlerianJihad wrote: post #127
mfkp wrote: post #124

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how about .to? that's what i'm mainly using for my url shortener/redirects and haven't run into any issues... yet

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Didn't the crustacean site temporarily lose its domain a minute ago because someone had to make an in-person payment to whatever Serbian mafia controls .rs?

Vanity domains are beyond stupid and not worth the trouble.

Re: Telegram's t.me domain has been suspended

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Post by inigyou »

axus wrote: post #87
IAmGraydon wrote: post #42

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Cloudflare

So far so good, for personal use; they have the lowest renewal prices for top level domains.

Just be aware they can arbitrarily take it away from you. If that's fine with you, go ahead.

Re: Telegram's t.me domain has been suspended

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Post by shishcat »

walrus01 wrote: post #134
ButlerianJihad wrote: post #131

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Being an American citizen, I prefer to do business with American entities, regardless of what shitty opinion her detractors may express. I am loyal to her, more loyal than I would be to Tonga, or Montenegro, just to choose some random examples.

I don't think you're wrong that tiny pacific island nations are not stable or reliable, at this point they're all either a client state of China, the USA or Australia. But I think it's also unfair and mean spirited to say that a country like Nauru (barely a country, IMHO, population of 12500 people) is "prostituting" itself by allowing 3rd party registrars to sell domains for a profit, since they have basically no ot…

Btw, I highly doubt Nauru makes much money selling their ccTLD, they manage it directly on the island and each domain costs a whopping 500$/year.

Better examples: Tuvalu (.TV), Anguilla (.AI)

Both of these countries (anguilla is not independent though) only get a cut of the money from the domains; all the technical management is done by GoDaddy for .TV and Identity Digital for .AI. In my opinion, very sad.

.AI was run by a local guy in Anguilla (Vince Cate) utilizing the https://cocca.org.nz/ domain SaaS, but Identity Digital took over in late 2024.

Re: Telegram's t.me domain has been suspended

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Post by inigyou »

zuzululu wrote: post #116

i really hope this is it from telegram. its downright causing havoc in countries without the jurisdictional power like korea and japan which have seen insane rise in drug related crime especially in japan they have a new wave of crime from anonymous telegram operators running human cell crime ops

What counts as drug related crime?
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